Google is putting Boston Dynamics up for sale

Boston Dynamics was acquired by Google in 2013, and is best known for its humanoid (and canine) robots. The robots can withstand attacks and are designed to operate in military conditions.

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Bloomberg reports that executives at Google parent company Alphabet have decided that the robotics company is unlikely to produce a profit and have therefore decided to sell it.

Bloomberg also highlighted "tensions" between the two sides as Boston Dynamics "failed" to come up with commercially viable products. In a November meeting, which was since been leaked online, Jonathan Rosenberg, adviser to Alphabet CEO Larry Page, said the company "cannot spend 30 plus percent of our resources on things that take ten years". "There's some time frame that we need to be generating an amount of revenue that covers expenses and (that) needs to be a few years," he said.